new hardware, more problems

[Greg]

On 24/01/2012 5:11 PM, Frederic Muller wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Some may remember I was struggling with my old (but faithful) T60 and 
> rawhide because of poor performance and increased heat. I have 
> therefore upgraded my hardware (more CPUs, more RAM) and have hit a 
> lot of new annoying to critical bugs with rawhide. Not sure what was 
> the culprit I tried F16 and experienced the same plague (missing 
> icons, ACPI making the machine hang, screensaver locks-up, etc,).
>
> So I'd like to know whether it's better to run F16 or rawhide/F17 to 
> report and try to address those bugs?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Fred
did you try Disabling ACPI ?